The Theater: Lumps in London

A well-known London character named "Professor" Townley Searle last week
showered first-nighters at the new Noel Coward play with leaflets
protesting its polemical content. Many critics thought he might have
saved paper and pencil; they found Peace in Our Time quite innocent of
content. Some concluded that melodrama had marked him for her own. But
many agreed that Playwright Coward, guided by his personal mental
radar, had scored another smash hit.